“Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up-never. That is a most gloomy thing for contemplation; it's like manure. Just as manure fertilizes the plants and so on, so the contemplation of death and the acceptance of death is very highly generative of creating life. You'll get wonderful things out of that.” ShouldTwoSleepWonderWonderfulAcceptanceCreatingWake UpPlantLifetimeContemplationTwo ThingsWonderful ThingsGoing To SleepSkullsGloomySkeletonsManureCreating LifeAcceptance Of Death Author:Alan Watts
“We grasp because God does. We create, and fall short, because God does. We continue creating because we fell short, and fall short again, because God does. Because one act of creation, one attempt at capture, is only one breath and we must breathe again. And again. And again. Here we stand (and sit and sleep), the many images of the Imager, and we can do no other.” DoeFallCan DoSleepCreationCreatingBreathsBreatheCaptureAgain And Again Book:Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent Source: Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent
“You have to remember that writing those sorta songs is not reality, it's more like trance, dream, y'know, like dreamwork. The mythical thing can enter the creating but there's the mythical place and the real place. And there's both...I get it between waking and sleeping. Or, when I'm doing something else. I don't sit down and think I'm gonna write about subject X or subject Y. I could be doing something and an impression comes in from outside and the song emerges out of that. It's never thought about or contrived.” ThinkingKnowsWritingRealDreamRealityRememberSongSleepSubjectsCreatingDown AndImpressionWakingTranceDreamworks Author:Van Morrison